Across the street from where I work there is a bar that I frequent for emergency caffeine boosts. The same barista is always there, from 8 am until 7:30 pm. He’s Iranian, though he hasn’t been back in 30 years, and his favorite topics are a) how wonderful Iran is, and b) how [...]
Archive for June, 2008
not about Italy
Posted in reflective, summer, year 1, tagged culture, Iran, people, politics on Thursday 12 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
photos!
Posted in photographic, year 1 on Sunday 8 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I’m finally posting all of the photos from our year on a non-Facebook interface. The advantage to posting them all at once is that I can sort them into eras based on milestones and turning points in our experiences here. So here’s the first, I’ll update this entry with others as I [...]
raining
Posted in regular, summer, year 1, tagged basil plant, friends, graduation, parties, rain on Sunday 8 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 11 am on a Sunday morning, and it’s raining. Even though everyone is pretty sick of the rain, after 2+ weeks of nothing but, this morning’s rain is rather pleasant. Maybe it’s just having grown up in a farming area prone to draughts, but hearing this kind of rain–steady and soaking, but [...]
